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From: Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] upgrade/downgrade portage loop
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 16:04:35
Message-Id: 49bf44f10602030758l31afeae7jb00f039330c96146@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] upgrade/downgrade portage loop by Richard Fish
1 > > Hello, I have the following in package.keywords:
2 > >
3 > > xfce-base/libxfce4mcs
4 > > xfce-base/libxfcegui4
5 > > xfce-base/libxfce4util
6 > >
7 > > They need to be in there for xfmedia. Whenever I run 'emerge -avDuN
8 > > world' portage wants to either upgrade or downgrade between the two
9 > > most recent ~x86 versions of the packages. Does anyone know how to
10 > > fix this?
11 >
12 > Use package.mask to mask out the more recent version.
13 >
14 > -Richard
15
16 I have wpa_supplicant in package.keywords too. It has four ~x86
17 packages that are more recent than the latest x86 package and it
18 doesn't get caught in an upgrade/downgrade loop. Why is this
19 happening with the xfce-base stuff?
20
21 - Grant
22
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